On 11/5/2010 11:12 AM, Dimitry Sibiryakov wrote:

> 05.11.2010 16:06, Jim Starkey wrote:
>> Um, that's not a terribly clever interface.
> Did you expect anything better from Borland guys?..

I expect better from Firebird guys.

>> Also, the output size isn't the same as the input size. DES rounds up
>> to an eight byte boundary, AES to 16 bytes. How is the called to know
>> what to expect?
> And this is another reason why page-level encryption is useless crap. We have page size
> rounded to kilobyte to get the best i/o performance. 16 additional bytes will kill OS i/o
> subsystem.

Um, I think you will find that page sizes are divisible by 16, so I
don't think that is an issue.


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